GETS OFF EASY. (Continued from page 1.) is tUe first of its kind to be tried' here for some time, considerable in terest Is manifest. Cherrlngton Wins Action. The jury empaneled to listen to the--evidence In the case ot J. S. Cherrlngton, a Riddle real estate dealer," vs. Bert Riddle, formerly en gaged In the harware business at Rid dle, returned a verdict late this af ternoon in which the plaintiff was awarded a judgment for $157 full amount of the claim. The suit was brought by Mr. Sherrington to recover approximate ly $157, which he alleged was due as commission as a result of his efforts in disposing of a certain hardware store formerly owned by ' the defendant. j A large number of witnesses were examined during the progress of the trial, and the testimony was some what conflicting. Cherrlngton claim ed that he consummated the deal in controversy, and consequently was entitled to his commission. Riddle testified that Cherrington had noth-: ing to do with the deal, and that ! the purchasers were brought to him by N. A. Collamore, of Portland, who at that time was the ITOuglas coun-: ty representative of the Marshall Wells Hardware Company. The jury deliberated less than two hours when they returned a verdict j favorable to the plaintiff. j May It dense Mowers. j Mr. Bowers, a sewing machine agent, who was arrested here several weeks ago accused of attempting to nttack little Bernice Marpster, will probably be released from custody early tomorrow,. Since the alleged crime was committed,, Mrs. Harpster and daughter, Bernice, have moved to Montana. On account of the fact that they are unable to return at this time, the district attorney is without sufficient evidence to warrant the return of an indictment. Jackson iiven Verdict. After a deliberation of about thirty minutes the jury empaneled to listen to the evidence in the case of Levi White vs. John Jackson late yesterday returned a verdict favor dble to the defendant. White brought suit to recover the sum of $1,000, which he alleged was due him for services rendered at the Instigation of Jackson. The defense offered 0vJ dence to the effect that White hao" lived at the Jackson home, near Can vyonvllle, for several years, and dur- Ting such time had been treated, oa a member of the family. It was also contended that White's physical con dition prevented him from rendeffhg" services equivalent to the amount of the claim. Attorney Carl Wim berly represented White, while At torney C. S. Jackson appeared for the defendant. The case consumed but two hours, and was probably the least Important action tried during the present term. OPTION EXPIRING. I have an option on some ex ceedingly valuable property which yields constant and large Income, fully protected. I can not hold It because of .lack of cash. If anyone will Join me and furnish reasonable sum. will share profits. Thorough Investigation permitted. An ab solutely SAFE Investment, or I the 1 wouldn't be In it myself. Ad- dress at once "B" care The Ev- ening News, 558 terned after that in effect in the Can adian cities and ft is asserted valua tions can be determined which will be just and equitable. Owners of va cant lots in the main business section, under the new system, must pay as much taxes a? their neighbor who may have a business block several stories high. In some instances small frame shacks are located on exceed ingly valuable lots, the owners await ing a favorable opportunity to build or sell. Single tax advocates declare that the new tax regulation means that the commencement of building operations will be greatly hastened. When the assessor begins his work next spring he Is to exempt 25 per cent of the value of improvements and this will be done every year for four years. Then taxes will be paid only on the real estate Itself the lots. This gradual change in assess ment will give the city time to ad just itself to the new order of things, it is beleved. , SWKKPEX SELECTS SITE. John Ilmmnar Officially Locates Tltut Country's Building On Fair (rounds. EVERETT, WASHINGTON, ADOPTS SINGLE TAX. Vacant Lots Will Me Assessed Snine Value As latts With MiiihlliiKs. ''' EVERETT, Wash., Nov. 14. A ranvass of the vote cast for single tax at the recent election held In Everett shows It to have been adopt ed 4,858 to 2,637, a majority in fav or of the measure of 2,221. The amendment to the city charter was passed despite strenuous opposition of certain renl estate men owning large tracts of unimproved lots. That the constitutionality of the amendment will be tested in the su nreme court at no distant date is made certain by an announcement of j those opposed to it. The advocates of single tax assert that it will be I SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15. With full military pomp nnd ceremony, Sweden's special commissioner, John lam mar, officially selected a site i for Sweden's exposition building. Preceding the site selecting cere-1 monies there was a review of two regiments of United States Infantry on the parade ground near the Let- terman general hospital. After the review President Moore led the com missioner and the guests of honor to the tnclosure In front of the grand stand, where the site was dedicated. The Swedish Singing Society and baud rendered "Hear Us Svea, Moth er of Us All," after which Presid-' ent Moore handed Commissioner Hammar the Swedish flag, which he planted in the earth as evidence of the dedication of the site for Swed en's participation in the exposition. When the flag had been planted. Miss Vera Llndstrom, daughter of Dr. A. O. Llndstrom,' who Is a na tive of Sweden and a resident of this city, raised the Swedish flag on the tall flagpole that had been erect ed in front of the grandstand. When the flag reached its truck, the Swedish-American band and the Swedish Singing Society rendered the Swedish popular melody, "Our Land". The Swedish exposition committee and Swedish Ladies' Auxiliary took a prominent part In these ceremon ies. Sweden is the twenty-first foreign country to respond to President Tuft's invitation to take part in th nation's celebration of the comple tion of the Panama Canal. Commis sioner Hammar Is managing direc tor of the General Export Associa tion of Sweden. He has been spec ially delegated by Count Ehrensvnrd. minister of foreign affairs, to select Sweden's site. derstand aud which cannot benefit them" in the future. Sir Alfred Harmsworth, Publisher, J London, says, "American boys are oemg mrnea oy eaucauon iiuo a race of white Chinese, all cast In the Bame mental mold, incapable of any in dependent thought." Woods Hutchison, Author, New York," says, "Even the child of the; tenement Is better off out of school I than in school. The whole system IsJ fundamentally wrong. I think It ought to be abolished." The Journal asks, "what can be done about it?" This publication states that It will publish a series of constructive articles on the subject, but how many Roseburg people will read and be Influenced by the ar ticles? It is a matter of common knowledge that the Roseburg schools do not have manual training and do- j mestic science, although there are thousands of schools in America that i have established these branches suc cessfully, nnd the schools of Ger many, for example, would be con sidered Impossible without thein. if you have a boy or girl in school, look into his or her school work, and decide for yourself how much of the present education is going to bo of real value to the pupil 30 years from now. Would the knowledge of the proper use of tools, or a sewing ma chine be of.no value when the child reaches the age wheu he or she must depend on himself or herself? Will knowing the distance of the nearest fixed star add anything to anyone's earning value wheu be assumes the burdens of living and the responsi bilities of business life. Will your boy be better prepared to earn a respectnb'le living through his ability to quote from Caesar's History of the Gallic, wars In the original ton gue than he will If he can use a saw, square and hammer efficiently? When men come to my office look ing for work, are they asked to show a school diploma? Or are they ask ed "have you a trade," and "can you use tools"? And Is it easier to find something for the average man to do that has been taught to work with his hands as weir as with his brain, or the man who can keep books? Roseburg boys and girls need a practical education as well as a theoretical one. The undersigned does not contend that what Is taught at this time Is wasted, or that Rose burg schools are Inferior In the least to other schools in other communi ties that teach only the same branches but does believe that the people of Roseburg should advance to the high er plane adopted by many, many American schools, and extend the school work so as to include manual (raining and domestic science not a smattering of the work, like "six weeks In Physics," which was a text book of my school days, but a sub stantial education along these Hues, which will enable any of our boys and girls to make use of the prac tical knowledge thus obtained, in case the vicissitudes of fortune re quire It? This Is the practical age, and the educaton of our Roseburg boys and girls, in keeping with the age, should be taught practical things, such as are found In manual training and domestic science rrourses. G, P. SCHLOSSER. B Calls the Fire Brigade IG brush fire send help!" Such a Bell Telephone message rallies the fire bri gade to the danger point and the farm buildings are saved. Minutes at the beginning of a fire are worth hours after the fire gets headway. - The Bell Service saves those minutes. It is an effective rural tire alarm system and the best possible protec tion against loss. It more than pays for itself in the protection it gives. Are you risking your farm property without the Bell system? If so, call and see our local manager when in town. i run ieii i mm go. On account of a luck of adverti ng, the good roads meeting scneoui- cd for last evening was postponed until a more convenient date. John Alexander, the- Glide mer chant, spent the day In Roseburg looking aftorNiuslness matters. Illldreth Sutherland has returned here after a visit at Portlnnd and other northern cities. Several members of the local lodge of Moose will go to Salem tonight to attend tho dedication of the Moose temple tit the capital city to morrow. iTiii.it; school qvustiox. found constitutional. Just how the measure will be tested has not yet . Editor "News." been outlined, but It is considered I Magazines and newspnpers In In probable that the county treasurer. ' creasing numbers are ttlvlng atten who collects the city taxes, will have tlon to the public school question. It put up to him by someone to ac-1 All are agreed that there Is some cept taxes on city projierty. less tho ; thing wrong with the present system, amount assessed for Improvements. ' and the demand for manual training A refusal to accept will bring about and domestic science In addition to an application for a mandamus and the "readln, rlt In, and rlthmetic" is the question will soon get before becoming general. The Ladles. Home the supreme court. 1 Journal, wheh Is not considered the How The Adjustment Will Work ' i highest authority In America by the If the amendment Is legal, the ad- average Westerner, brit which does PRAISE FOR SITU Kit LI X. Ilnlpli I iirlettc Write Of Ills Recent Visit At Sutlierlin. it justment of taxes next year will be the most extensive In the history of Kverett and the owners of unimprov ed lots will have to pay much more than 1n the past. In the outskirts Hon of Everett and scattered through the business and residence sections are many unimproved lots on which the taxes have been much less than on the adjoining improved lots. Advo cates of the single tax, confident that the amendment is constitutional, pre dict that Everett will establish a new record for Pacific roast cities in rap Id growth. The city of Vancouver, t!t C, Is cited as the most notable example of the Buccess of the single tax and there arc several other Can adian cities which have assorted that law has been a great success. contain at least a few excellent dis cussions ' on various subjects, re cently published a list, of opinions from various sources under the cap- Is the public school a failure". Ralph Parlette, humorist and phi! osopher, who recently delighted i large audience In the Gem theatre, has the following In the Lyceumtte and Talent Magazine, of Chicago, re garding his visit here: "Sutlierlin, Oregon, Is one of those made-to-order towns, started by the Luse Land & Development Company three yenrs ago and now grown to 600 population, with paving and cl lis ters of white globed electric lights along the streets. All around It. arc apple orchards which the company ( growing aud selling at prices ranging from (100 to $f50 an acre. Sutlierlin Bays that when her appleg come on Mood Hiver will sink into the row. But Hood River retorts tha all the?e young apple eldoradoes are promises, while their's Is ierfornl ance. Ralph Dunbar has twenty three acres of apples near Sutlierlin. and believe me, that w-ill get Ralph encores. land above described, before the Reg later and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Roseburg, Ore gon, on tho 23rd day of December, 1912. Claimant names as witnesses: Patrick O'Donnoll, of Camus Val ley, Oregon; Hollo Case, of Camas Valley, Oregon; Myron E. Wolgar, of Camas Valley, Oregon; Albert E Crouch, of Coquillo, Oregon. B. P. JONES. dl2 Register. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. LOST Deputy sheriff star. Finder please leave at News office. tf NOTICE FOll PUBLICATION. 05873. Department ot the Interior, U. S Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon, Oc tober 31, 1912., NOTICE Is hereby given that Pnt- rlck O'Donnell, of Camas Vnlley, Ore gon, who, on February 9, 1910, made Homestead Entry, Serial No. 05873, for NE V4 and WV4 SE of Sec tion 32, Township 29 S., Range 9 W., Willamette Meridian, has filed notice of Intention to mako final five-year proof, to establish claim to the laud above described, before the Register I and Receiver or the United Stnto Land Office, at Roseburg, Oregon, oi tho 23rd day of December, 1912. Claimant names as witnesses: Harry R. Welgnr, of Camas Vul-, ley, Oregon; fielle Case, of Caniav j Valley, Oregon; Mnrtha M. Welgar. of Camas Valley. Oregon; Albert E j Crouch, of Coqullle, Oregon. j B. F. JONES. (112 Register : In tho County Court of tho State ot Oregon for Douglas County. In the matter of the estate or Robert F. Smlck, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That the undersigned, by order of the above entitled court duly made and entered of record, hns been ap pointed administrator of tho estate of Robert F. Smlck, deceased. All persons having claims against said estate aro hereby required to present tho samo to tho undersigned, properly verified, within six months from the dnte of this notlco, at Cati yonvllle, Oregon, or at the law office of Fullerton & Orcutt, Roseburg, Ore gon. Dntod tilts 17th day of October, ' 1912. J. P. S.MICK, Administrator ot the cstuto of Rob ert F. Smlck, deceased. nl4 111 HIMCSS IS ClOOI). The prospect of nn extra strong domnnd for trees has prompted tho Roseburg Nursery Company to en large their stock. Notwithstanding that they were already better sup plied than at any previous season. A. L. Kltchln left last night for dir roront points in the northern por tion of tho state, as lias Deon his custom for several years, to Inspect the loading ot the stock which Is to supply the good people of Douglas county. The additional buying will be of cherries pears and plums, n NOTICE l'Olt PIHI.ICATIO.W "At Sutherlln Is George II. Glynn, To quote from a few or them i assistant secretary or the Luse Unit! "State Commissioner or Education. 1 Company that develoed this tract. New York. A. S. Draper says:" Not j Back In 1891 he was a represeqttitive more than one-third of the children ' of the Slayton Bureau In Michigan, who enter our elementary schools land ne'xt year for the Chicago Ked ever finish them. It Indicates that. path, then munaged by Fred llatha the lives of the children are being! way. His competitor was Fred Pel- ham, and he says Mr. Palham was wasted, that there Is a sad lack of deflnate aim and purpose about It all, and that our educational plans do not rationally meet our conditions. The Brooklyn Dally Eagle, one of the leading eastern newspapers says "Our children are overtaxed by a lot of thoroughly useless studies. Konr Yenrs For Full Kxemptlon. romjjelled to cram their brains with The proposed system here is pat-lessons that they cannot possibly un- the "big push" In the booking then, considered the best In that field. He was shocked to learn of Mr. Palhnm'8 physical collapse. Prices haven't ris en these years. The fact Is. cele brltes got more money then than now. Glynn got 1500 regularly for Tal mage. and $250 for Nye and Bur b:nk. Sutherlln Sun. 07448. I Department of the Interior IJ. S. Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon, Oc- j toiler 31,1912. NOTICE is hereby given that Belle j Case, of Camas Valley, Oregon, who, ! on August 1, 1911, mndo llomestnl ! Entry, Serial No, 074 4 8, for Lota 1 nnd 2 nnd EV4 NW14 of Section 30.: Township 29 S. Range 9 W., Wlllam-' ette Meridian, has filed notice of In-1 tentlon to make final commutation proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before tho Register and Receiver of the United State Land Office, at Roseburg, Oregon, on j the 23rd day of December, 1912. Claimant names as witnesses: Patrick O'Donnell, of Camns Val ley, Oregon; Hnrry n. Welgar. of Camas Valley, Oregon; Nellie Kirk, of Roseburg. Oregon; C. W. Kirk, of Roseburg, Oregon. j b. p, JONi:h. ; d!2 Register. XOTICK l'Olt ITIll.K'ATIO.V. ! 05882. Department of the Interior, II. S Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon. October 31. 1912. NOTICE is hereby given that Har ry FI. Welgar, of Camas Valley, Ore gon, who, on February 10, 1910 made Homestead Entry, Serial, No 05882. for E'4 NE V and KV4 BE '4 of Section 32, Township 29 8.. Range 9 W.. Willamette Meridian, has filed notice of Intention to make final five year proof, to establish claim to the V" its' C I 4" Women Are Casting Ballots A Iso School Children Judging by the number of ladies who are visit ing our store this week, it would seem that they are taking much more interest in the Baby Con test than their husbands are in National Politics. Of course, everyone who sees tho Glolio-Wernicke IiookciiHB to lie awarded to the ono offering the clevereBt title to the picture dis play in our show window, immediately demanda a ballot. Kememlier, you do no have to be a customer of the Btore to win the prize; everyone, without reservation, man, woman or child can submit an answer. School children wishing to start a library in their Hchool can get up a contost among themselves, and every member of the claim Kiibrait a title. It Ihb good tooic for one's imaginative power ' YOUR ROOM MIGHT WIN THE BOOKCASE Why not appoint a commitec, and securo the teachers consent to compete for this prize to go in the Schoolroom. RICE & RICE "The House Furnishers"